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Grey Stone - Sustainable Eco House

Grey Stone - Sustainable Eco House

New Zealand > Auckland > Papakura & Franklin District > Ramarama
Updated Power Inputs Date Sunday May 9, 2009 Solar PV Source Sunnyboy Controller 9/3/08 7.2 kWh Best 8.17 kWH SkyStream Wind Turbine Source Skystream Controller 13kWh Best 24kWh Solar Thermal Source Steca TR0704 Controller Best Daily Output 178kWh March ...


new house - stage one

new house - stage one

New Zealand > Canterbury > Geraldine
The first part of a passive solar house designed by Roger Buck Associates of Christchurch, constructed by Hendersons of Timaru. Winner (for builder) of Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Awards in regional Master Builders' Awards 2008 On-site waste treatment designed by EcoEng includes ...


Kaimata Croft

Kaimata Croft

New Zealand > West Coast > Greymouth
We have just started building our workshop and are in the process of applying for consent for the house. The workshop is a ribraft insulated floor, lawson cyprus untreated timber frame with Terra Lana wool and polyester insulation and a lime plaster coasting inside and out and a roof of tr...


Sustainable house, solar panels, efficient heating

Sustainable house, solar panels, efficient heating

New Zealand > Canterbury
Construction: Timber frame walls; floor is 100mm slab with 50mm screed and 50mm polystyrene (with embedded water pipes for heating via solar hot water / wet back system); timber truss roof with corrugated steel cladding. Windows: PVC framed double glazed. Thermal mass: Concrete floor...


FLW/Japanese House

FLW/Japanese House

New Zealand > Canterbury > Ashburton
Jack and Margaret Scott from Ashburton have an admiration for Japanese Architecture and they are also fans of the late great American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, particularly his early prairie houses. They have built several times before and had some very good ideas of there own that the...


Energy saving design

Energy saving design

New Zealand > Otago > Queenstown
Nestled into its mountain setting, this strikingly original Queenstown home is a showcase for energy saving design and technology, as DAVID KILLICK discovered. From Queenstown you take the road to Glenorchy, turn right and climb steeply. The road feels like a ski access road, but is sea...


Japanese Stye Eco Home in Ashburton

Japanese Stye Eco Home in Ashburton

New Zealand > Canterbury > Ashburton
View an article about this house The interior design is clean, minimalist and beautiful, as well as earthy due to favouring the use of exposed wood in design. Jack and Margaret love their pine ceilin...


Taupo Ebode

Taupo Ebode

New Zealand > Waikato > Taupo
TAUPO HOUSE – ECO HOME BY EBODE – TRULY SUSTAINABLE HOMES www.ebode.co.nz BRIEF: This 1960s board & batten home was essentially a ‘bach that grew’ – and included undesirable features such as a huge South-facing deck that was never used; large S...


Sustainable Home in Rolleston

Sustainable Home in Rolleston

New Zealand > Canterbury > Rolleston
Sustainability and energy efficiency of this home were priorities for the owners, migrating from England. The home is super insulated using thick woolfibre insultion and designed to capture the sun. An internal courtyard with stone heat-sink walls and roof louvres acts as a solar room ...


Rolleston House

Rolleston House

New Zealand > Canterbury > Rolleston
Sustainability and energy efficiency of this home were priorities for the owners, migrating from England. The design by Bob Burnett Architecture won the Sustainability Award in the 2008 ADNZ Resene Regional Design Awards. It also won the Bathroom Award and it was a finalist in other catego...


Dunedin Sustainable House

Dunedin Sustainable House

New Zealand > Otago > Dunedin
View more about this house on BRANZ This sustainable house, built by a local builder and designed by the owners and architect Michael Ovens, is located on the Otago Peninsula. It w...


Cornerstone Licencee,Future Homes NZ wins 2 NZ NATIONAL AWARDS

Cornerstone Licencee,Future Homes NZ wins 2 NZ NATIONAL AWARDS

New Zealand > Waikato > Taupo
“Cornerstone Building System”, Taupo Licencee wins DBH Gold award for best sustainable home under $500,000 for National Award 2008 after winning the Taupo District Gold medal. To add to this prize was the National award for the "Pink Batts Best Energy Efficient home" STOP PRE...


Kauritatahi farm

Kauritatahi farm

New Zealand > Bay Of Plenty
House is currently under construction by owner. Incorporates traditional post & beam construction using locally grown Lawson Cyprus timber and Rotorua manufactured Timbercrete block walls. Will feature good passive solar design, solar panels and wood stove boiler water heating, double glaz...


Volcalite Compressed Pumice Blocks

Volcalite Compressed Pumice Blocks

New Zealand
This house is constructed from 'Volcalite' blocks. These blocks are manufactured by us here in BOP (Pumice Industries Ltd). Volcalite blocks are made from pumice and cement that is compressed into a 300x200x90mm solid block. The blocks have been tested and show that they are 10 times stron...


Laba Residence - Dunedin Eco Home - Solar, wind etc

Laba Residence - Dunedin Eco Home - Solar, wind etc

New Zealand > Otago > Dunedin > St Clair
A residential dwelling located at Mission Cove, Company Bay on the Otago Peninsula was designed as a solar passive energy conserving home for Mike and Edith Laba. The design process began in May 2004. The principal requirement was for the dwelling to be energy efficient, environmentally fr...


Rod Percival Green Show Home

Rod Percival Green Show Home

New Zealand > Waikato > Coromandel
WILL YOU BE DISSAPOINTED TO FIND THIS PROPERTY SOLD FOR A PRICE YOU COULD AFFORD? Immaculate, healthy award winning eco show home must be sold at auction June 10 2009, this could be incredible value for money. This beautiful home was built by award winning builder Rod Percival to de...


toastie

toastie

New Zealand > Waikato > Cambridge
Standard built house, brick over timber frame, concrete floor, concrete tile roof. Passive Solar Underfloor heating installed by the Floor*Store. See www.floorstore.org Two Masport woodburners with wetback. Heat transfer system to bedrooms. Weiss 3 room kit with additional of a centri...


Khandallah energy efficiency rental

Khandallah energy efficiency rental

New Zealand > Wellington > Wellington > Khandallah
Nicknamed the Recycled house. A great living space for adults and children with private kids play area's in the downstairs bedrooms. 1940s state home, renovated to beyond today's building standards. Wiring: Cat 5 throughout the home and coax throughout the home ready for any type o...


Lite-House Surfdale Development

Lite-House Surfdale Development

New Zealand > Auckland > Hauraki Gulf & Islands > Waiheke Island
The Lite-House development on Waiheke Island is a mixed-use building with a luxury one bedroom apartment and three office spaces. The development has received multiple industry awards including: - RMB 2010 House of the Year - Winner Sustainable Home $500k - $1m and three Gold Reserve Aw...


Creswick Sustainable House

Creswick Sustainable House

New Zealand > Wellington
KEY DEMANDS OF THE BRIEF Sustainability and energy efficiency were key features of this home by: • Optimising the passive solar gain through the orientation of the house • Exploring many methods of passive heating and cooling • Creating a spacious home for a family of 4 and their r...


Tour the Solar Energy House.co.nz in Auckland

Tour the Solar Energy House.co.nz in Auckland

New Zealand > Auckland > Auckland City Area > Meadowbank
The Solar Energy House in Meadowbank, Auckland is a renovated ex state house that has a energy bill of less than $50/month yet is 609m2 in size with 5 occupants, home based business with lots of electronic appliances! Modern & spacious and available for you to get a professional tour. 5...


FOR SALE: Here's your piece of Middle Earth - Rammed Earth Eco-House - Hamilton, Waikato

FOR SALE: Here's your piece of Middle Earth - Rammed Earth Eco-House - Hamilton, Waikato

New Zealand > Waikato > Hamilton
This is a rare opportunity for you to purchase a one of a kind rammed earth, environmentally friendly home in picturesque Rotokauri with expansive Lake Views. Designed by Graeme North to provide all the architectural space and sophistication of a large, well-designed country home, with...


Wadestown Solar Home

Wadestown Solar Home

New Zealand > Wellington
This experimental family home and architectural design studio has an ongoing research component involving the thermal tracking and data recording of passive and active solar performance throughout the house and the basement rock bin. Fan assisted solar harvesting is a feature of the winter...


volcalite home

volcalite home

New Zealand > Bay Of Plenty > Kawerau
Our home is built of a new pumice block system that is awaiting branz approval at this moment. A volcalite block (compressed pumice/cement) is 300x220x90mm in dimensional size and weighs only one third the weight of concrete. There are approx 55 blocks per surface square metre of wall whic...


Waikuku Beach House

Waikuku Beach House

New Zealand > Canterbury
Waikuku Beach House is an Insulated Precast Concrete Panel House. This is optimum construction type providing thermal mass, comfort and permanence resulting in a very cosy home with low running costs. Panel junctions and openings have been detailed to provide a continuous insulation envelo...


Strawbale house in Clutha For Sale

Strawbale house in Clutha For Sale

New Zealand > Otago > Balclutha
Positioned on the northern edge of the Catlins Tourist area at the beginning of the Southern Scenic Way is a recently completed straw bale home. Set in an elevated position, it is 14 km south west of Balclutha. The house has a northerly aspect enjoying all day full sun with expansive views...


The Earth House, Orewa

The Earth House, Orewa

New Zealand > Auckland > Hibiscus Coast > Orewa
The Earth House, Orewa The earth brick house is in a delightful location, with direct access to the beach, just 50m down the shared driveway. It's a charming 2-storey home in a contemporary style, with solid 360mm earth walls, the bricks showing on the exterior but earth-plastered inter...


Two bedrooms and large workshop.

Two bedrooms and large workshop.

New Zealand > Canterbury
This home also has a business attached. We have a 3x6 office 6x6 garage plus three sheds and a joinery work shop. No traveling to work! The house is amazingly spacious considering its diminutive exterior dimensions. Less is more as far as resource use is concerned, so we have designed a ...


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